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| Topic | 53% of Republicans say they want a TRUMP 2024 as Mike Pence is a DISTANT 2ND!! |
| Sahuagin 02/17/21 5:29:14 AM #8 | TheOkHornedRat posted... Duckbear uses the word 'as' so goddamn often and in context where it does not belongnot sure I'm remembering right, but I know someone who is I think from roughly the same area as him who also over-uses "as". --- |
| Topic | Pizza, or not Pizza; that is the question |
| Sahuagin 02/15/21 8:15:27 PM #2 | do you have a M&M meat shop near you? they make really really good food. need a big freezer though. --- |
| Topic | You Guys Play Cards? |
| Sahuagin 02/15/21 8:55:56 AM #14 | zebatov posted... So Sp > Di > He > Cl.... Who wins?it can depend on the rules of what you're playing, but normally it would be that ace of spades beats ace of diamonds --- |
| Topic | You Guys Play Cards? |
| Sahuagin 02/15/21 4:25:21 AM #9 | as far as I recall Spades > Diamonds > Hearts > Clubs --- |
| Topic | Minimum wage versus National Annual Wage |
| Sahuagin 02/14/21 11:05:34 PM #26 | doesn't a minimum wage basically say that low-paying jobs are not allowed to exist? it doesn't really mean that low paying jobs will pay more, it means those jobs will just be removed as options if at all possible, or made more complex or require more experience or effort. (I guess in other words, very theoretically, it should increase unemployment, though also increase the value of employment. employment is more valuable but harder to get. something like that.) --- |
| Topic | I fell on ice and I think I maybe fractured my wrist |
| Sahuagin 02/14/21 10:59:02 PM #9 | zebatov posted... Its best just to take the fall. Majority of wrist injuries happen because people try to break their fall.kind of this; I try to land flat on my back if I can. but sometimes it happens too fast, or you're carrying something or not in a good position, etc. the last time I was carrying a couple bags, and when I slipped I fell hard onto my left shoulder before I could do anything about it. (had pain in the shoulder/collarbone joint on and off for over a year afterward.) --- |
| Topic | Feels like we're due for a big technical breakthrough. What do you hope/think we |
| Sahuagin 02/14/21 1:21:24 AM #12 | fusion power "should" be getting off the ground eventually, and if/when that happens it will be major. but I wouldn't bet on it happening this decade. Smarkil posted... the development of a battery using new technologywhile better battery tech is definitely something important to have, there's kind of a limit on how much energy density you can achieve, and even if you increase the energy density, it means that you have even more volatile substances. Smarkil posted... That's the biggest issue we have with renewable resources like solar and wind - they're inconsistent. They potentially can generate all the power we need, but as soon as the sun goes down or the wind stops we effectively have nothing.rather than "batteries" there are forms of large-scale energy storage. pumping entire lakes of water up into a reservior that can then flow back down later running hydro generators, or lifting heavy weights. (one energy storage plant just lifts and stacks concrete blocks into a tower, and then lowers them one by one when energy is needed.) (supposedly almost all of the world's energy storage uses the pumped hydro idea, but you need the right terrain to make it possible. the stacked blocks idea is new and hopefully something that can be more widely used.) --- |
| Topic | C/D "Type 1" Zombies Won't attack aliens who look similar to humans.. |
| Sahuagin 02/11/21 7:14:00 PM #3 | you could write it either way and it would work. "type 1" is not a detailed enough explanation of how they work, which is why this is a question in the first place. --- |
| Topic | anyone else played a japanese game and got stuck because its japanese? |
| Sahuagin 02/11/21 11:07:57 AM #11 | I rented the japanese version of SM64 before the N64 was officially available. it had a surprising amount of english, but the main dialogue parts were all japanese, but mostly nothing that really mattered for gameplay purposes. you just couldn't tell exactly what npcs were saying (I guess like the penguin asking you to find her baby) but it was definitely still playable. --- |
| Topic | If the world continents didn't drift ever so slightly, we coulda had war ostrich |
| Sahuagin 02/10/21 7:20:46 AM #6 | incidentally... LoM:SE is on steam apparently! https://store.steampowered.com/app/404040/Lords_of_Magic_Special_Edition/ --- |
| Topic | If the world continents didn't drift ever so slightly, we coulda had war ostrich |
| Sahuagin 02/10/21 3:39:22 AM #2 | the water warrior in Lords of Magic rides an ostrich --- |
| Topic | Would you rather have a phone that |
| Sahuagin 02/10/21 3:08:18 AM #3 | what does "last" mean? lasts that long with full usage? or regardless of usage? or if unused but less if used? --- |
| Topic | Darksiders: The series ended 'cuz playing as Famine or Pestilence would be lame |
| Sahuagin 02/09/21 11:38:53 PM #15 | Lokarin posted... playing as Famine or Pestilence would be lamedoesn't have to be. seems more like a problem of lack of imagination. Pestilence in particular could make a great class. Famine is a bit more difficult; it's too narrow of a concept. maybe you could broaden it away from specifically being about food and make it more about scarcity in general? I don't know the gameplay or setting, but there could be "iron famine" to damage armor and weapons, "malnutrition" to debuff a living creature, "calcium deficiency" against skeletons, etc.? that would make for a really weird class and it might be too much like Pestilence. maybe Pestilence could focus on DoTs and Famine could focus on sapping/debuffs. maybe Famine is really weak, but he has so many debuffs that it doesn't matter (wouldn't work if you could team up). --- |
| Topic | This is CHRIS PRATT'S BROTHER...Is this proof he is a REPUBLICAN now??? |
| Sahuagin 02/09/21 1:18:40 AM #4 | Chris Pratt married Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter, and there is now a Pratt/Schwarzenegger child... that's crazy --- |
| Topic | How often do you actually play retro consoles anymore? |
| Sahuagin 02/08/21 7:05:09 PM #44 | with family yes, but the batteries in some of the cartridges are gone so for example we can't make it through LttP since the save doesn't stick. also on one of my SNESs for some reason the mother brain fight had really messed up graphics (and IIRC it wasn't just limited to graphics, parts of the mother brain were in the wrong place, and you would take extreme damage for hitting disembodied pieces of her.) when I switched systems, the other system didn't have that problem. --- |
| Topic | Is tap to pay just finicky? |
| Sahuagin 02/08/21 5:07:18 PM #37 | I think it varies with the device at the location. some locations it always works. some locations, as you say, it works half the time and half the time it makes you use the chip instead. (it's possible those locations might have a tap limit set, so if you order more than $20 or something, it makes you use the chip instead.) --- |
| Topic | Have you played any of these games? |
| Sahuagin 02/08/21 5:32:33 AM #13 | I've played Painkiller and Painkiller Overdose but not those ones I've played and own Soldiers of Fortune on SNES. the game listed (The Chaos Engine) is the genesis version I think. --- |
| Topic | You get attacked by a monster. The infection makes you become one of them. |
| Sahuagin 02/07/21 3:23:00 PM #40 | Naruto_fan_42 posted... What canon is the M&Ms thing from?I knew it originally from an X-Files episode, and of course there is The Count from Sesame Street, but reading about it, it's supposed to be a part of actual vampire folklore, where scattering seeds on the ground was an effective way to delay a vampire and something someone would actually do to safeguard a suspected vampire lair/tomb. --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/05/21 5:23:01 PM #25 | k I submitted my most recent changes. I will wait I guess and then I think I'll fork and clone from scratch afterward. --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 9:55:18 PM #21 | A normal C# project compiles to a .dll file, and the dll is copied to projects that reference that project. A long standing problem with VS is that other "content" files do not get copied. So you can't reference a project to gain access to its files, it only gets a copy of the output dll. This means that you can't reference things like XNA content, or web related files (.js/.html/.css etc.). You can sort of work around this with linked files, but it's hard to maintain and would sometimes conflict. You can also write your own pre/post-build copy commands to move files, but that's also hard to maintain. So a new solution to this problem are "shared projects" which basically end up just merging right into projects that reference them, as if it was a part of that project. You then get copies of the files in that project as if they were a part of your project, allowing you to push non-C# files into one reusable place, add references, and make use of them in many places. (And yeah, as usual with MS, it's sort of a hack fix o a problem that could really use a way better solution.) Anyway Now that I have things in the right place, I'm not as eager to make those two changes, though I do feel like that's the right direction to go architecturally (but it's definitely a soft suggestion at most; I don't want to mess up your project) I'm not sure what you mean about the shared project. The main difference is that a shared project sort of bakes right into a project that references it as if those code files were a part of the referencing project, rather than a class library where the code compiles to a dll (assembly) and then is loaded at runtime. (I suppose a practical difference there would be that a shared project reference increases the size of the referencing projects output file, and a class library reference splits it into a separate dll, which then has to be loaded.) for the second point, I think ideally there should be one repo that lets you get up and running. an end user can reference any of the projects they want from a new separate solution, but the repo itself should (theoretically/IMO) have a single solution that builds and runs (or even contains multiple executable projects). I don't want to stomp all over your design though; I'm going to try to be extremely cautious. the point for me is the learning experience of working on someone else's code and particularly doing so without causing any problems for them. --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 9:15:30 PM #19 | well, I started over since I hadn't forked. I have things building and running with almost zero changes (just a matter of matching your directory structure) and now will try a minimal pull request. --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 8:20:38 PM #17 | ok I have to figure out this git stuff looks like I need to clone a fork rather than clone your repo directly, which makes sense reading your docs it sounds like I should try to figure out how to get it working without restructuring, at least for now --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 7:59:07 PM #16 | I did some basic cleaning, but gonna try to take this slow, whereas my instinct would normally be to just change everything I see whenever I see it before I go over everything I think I need to change the structure a bit here's what I want to do, but it's up to you: - the shared library should just be for the content, not all of your code. I will split it apart and make a class library for the code part of it (and later probably splitting that apart based on dependency.) - the solution is not buildable unless I add the editor project, but that project is not in the repo. I will add the editor project to the UI repo so that that solution will build. (may try merging the repo in with git, but I'm not a git expert and I don't want to make a mess.) let me know if I'm being too intrusive --- |
| Topic | You get attacked by a monster. The infection makes you become one of them. |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 7:29:58 PM #10 | normally I don't really like vampires, but that does seem like the clear choice here --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/04/21 1:31:37 AM #11 | Yellow posted... Oh yeah, that sounds interesting, I've never accepted a commit. I take it you got it to build despite my lack of instructions?I'm maybe/probably going to try doing a pass over all the code files, I just wanted to make sure we're on the same page first before I start changing things. I'm not sure about the indents. I feel like I shouldn't change it all to 3 spaces just because I like it. the braces at least I think would be an improvement in a lot of places but the tab size is a bit more personal preference. and reading it sounds like 4 is standard in a lot of places. so I might keep it at 4. --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 8:47:23 PM #9 | tempted to go through this and clean it up a bunch. not used to programming with others though, so there would instantly be the issue of conventions. my conventions that conflict would be: I use size 3 tabs, but you have 4 (forgot about tabs versus spaces; I use 3 spaces, you use 4 spaces) I use (dunno the name but looks like it's 1TBS) style (ie: braces on same line), this is all K&R style (braces on separate line, vertically aligned) I use var when possible but it seems like you avoid it intentionally? can I use 3 spaces for indents, or should I stick with 4 spaces? can I use 1TBS style, or should I stick with K&R? can I use var? (I guess not to imply that you *have* to take my changes or anything; but either way, there should be agreement on conventions) --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 7:00:20 PM #7 | how do you build it if the solution is only a single shared project? --- |
| Topic | My mom invented the coolest thing ever. Pizza on a bagel. |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 4:20:14 PM #12 | bagel pizza does seem like a good combo --- |
| Topic | I spent 4 hours rewriting code |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 6:23:44 AM #5 | removing duplication is almost always a good thing. (though, that's duplication of logic, not duplication of structure.) if there are performance issues, use a profiler. sometimes things are slow for a reason you would never have guessed. a profiler will tell you the exact place(s) in your code that are taking the most time to execute. (if this is graphics related though it may not be so straight forward as that.) --- |
| Topic | American plans to LIVE until he's 180 YEARS OLD!! Look at what he's Doing!!! |
| Sahuagin 02/03/21 6:16:07 AM #12 | the article doesn't mention it but what you theoretically need is to reverse or delay telomere shortening. basically, (to over-simplify) cancer is caused by the fact that we have regeneration (cancer is out-of-control regeneration), so to prevent that we have natural "time to live" counters (telomeres) that limit the number of times cells can split so that regeneration can't happen forever. this helps protect us from cancer but curses us with biological aging. the problems are: - if you do actually reverse or get rid of the "time to live" mechanism (and there are ways of doing so), you tend to end up significantly more vulnerable to cancer (in fact, that is often *why* people get cancer: because something like that happened in some of your tissues, and now those tissues are regenerating without bound). (though there are animals that are resistant to cancer despite also avoiding telomere shortening, so it's not strictly impossible to achieve.) - as I often point out, even if you get rid of biological aging, you can't get rid of temporal aging. a lot of getting old is just wear and tear and poor maintenance of your body. making as healthy choices as you can will definitely help but that doesn't mean you're going to live 50% longer than anyone ever has before. I don't think people that live to 100+ are even necessarily those particular people that lived the healthiest lives. --- |
| Topic | You might need Jelly Mario in your life |
| Sahuagin 02/01/21 2:39:03 PM #3 | is it supposed to run at 1fps? --- |
| Topic | Anyone here play the Minecraft? I'm having a technical issue... |
| Sahuagin 02/01/21 10:56:07 AM #5 | just use java version? I can see lots of complaints about performance issues with windows 10 version and lots of useless replies from MS. It doesn't have to be an issue with your system, it may just be badly implemented. --- |
| Topic | You can sends 1 of 2 messages to yourself 1 month back in time... |
| Sahuagin 02/01/21 3:27:54 AM #13 | too lazy to do either --- |
| Topic | When you FLOSS your Teeth, do you start with the TOP or BOTTOM teeth first??? |
| Sahuagin 02/01/21 3:21:35 AM #5 | varies --- |
| Topic | Critique my photos so I can be a better protogrammifyer. |
| Sahuagin 01/30/21 8:57:54 PM #7 | for reference this was the one I thought the best from the few at the top of both lists https://i.imgur.com/VqSfErA.jpg --- |
| Topic | So... your Republicans believe in Jewish Space Lasers... |
| Sahuagin 01/30/21 8:56:15 PM #17 | |
| Topic | What's your favorite Nintendo franchise? |
| Sahuagin 01/30/21 1:11:43 AM #18 | Metroid easy --- |
| Topic | Uh, what's great about windows 10? |
| Sahuagin 01/29/21 4:09:20 PM #9 | it's being actively updated it's more stable, secure, and faster; it just feels lighter in general, especially compared to 7 (and I loved 7) it allows multiple users to be logged in simultaneously (previously a feature of windows server only; not sure exactly when introduced to workstation windows though, might have already been a feature since some other version) as much as I don't like the push to metro, I do find the minimal interface more appealing in many cases searching from the start menu (after turning off cortana and internet searching as much as possible) is very fast and quick way to launch things something more specific, I recently learned that users can install fonts to their profile, rather than having to install them to the system. that's pretty great since fonts have always been such a low level part of the o/s but at the same time are something that should be a lot more flexible since they're so important. --- |
| Topic | Critique my photos so I can be a better protogrammifyer. |
| Sahuagin 01/29/21 4:04:17 AM #2 | too many to look through all of them. definitely look nice in terms of clarity and detail and color, etc. (not that I know anything about photography.) my thoughts are that some of the things you're photographing aren't that nice to look at, like wilting flowers, etc. the duck grooming himself in the pond with ripples and the sky reflected in the water looks pretty great --- |
| Topic | Tell me about you favorite cheese... |
| Sahuagin 01/28/21 10:02:45 PM #37 | love cheddar (cheddar + tomatoes is an awesome combo) swiss is great I remember really liking monterey jack but only had it a couple times a long time ago mozzarella is ok parmesan is good I eat a lot of beer cheese lately, which is good but WAY too salty --- |
| Topic | how many hours do you wear your mask at work? |
| Sahuagin 01/26/21 9:07:30 PM #28 | I don't have to at my desk just when walking around, so >0 but <1 --- |
| Topic | How good is Dragon Quest XI? |
| Sahuagin 01/26/21 9:06:14 PM #53 | I played a bit of DQVIII and I don't remember it being like that. it was average difficulty at first, and then when I went across the ocean or something, it was a lot harder over there. (too long ago to remember clearly though and I didn't play it much either). --- |
| Topic | How good is Dragon Quest XI? |
| Sahuagin 01/26/21 8:41:24 PM #50 | Mead posted... does it ever become a little more challengingIMO that's its biggest (possibly only) flaw. I immediately started over with hard monsters enabled, but then the monsters are still kind of too easy, but the bosses are way too hard. if they made the monsters tougher and the bosses not so tough it would be a lot more enjoyable. (I don't know what it ends up like on normal though.) --- |
| Topic | Nostalgic pc games that no one else has ever heard of |
| Sahuagin 01/25/21 2:48:36 AM #41 | DeltaBladeX posted... Dark Reign - RTS game I found quite interestingDark Reign I never got into because it (or all RTSs at the time) always felt so clunky to me compared to Blizzard RTSs. (but it did have *great* music, if I recall composed by the same guy that did Mechwarrior 2.) Forsaken I just can't stand in comparison to Descent, and tried it again recently but just reinforced my dislike of it Stonekeep is actually pretty good. I couldn't make it passed the watery areas as a kid, but having tried it again recently made it super far but still failed to finish it due to petering out rather than getting stuck. --- |
| Topic | Nostalgic pc games that no one else has ever heard of |
| Sahuagin 01/24/21 10:58:21 PM #37 | I had the Journeyman Project 1-3 but it had Windows version-related problems where it would do something like look for the cd on C: even though the CD was D:. never figured it out. so, I've played the first 5 mins of the first game, and that's it. --- |
| Topic | What's a general term for when someone is very good, but not great at something? |
| Sahuagin 01/24/21 7:38:01 PM #3 | intermediate --- |
| Topic | Nostalgic pc games that no one else has ever heard of |
| Sahuagin 01/24/21 12:32:04 AM #16 | if you guys like Marathon you might like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheExaminedLifeofGaming/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYgKyMZ-B4 --- |
| Topic | Anyone had experience with DOA HDDs? |
| Sahuagin 01/24/21 12:26:16 AM #10 | ReturnOfFa posted... Although I can literally switch the good drive to any MOBO port and it works just fine. So the ports are good.if the working drive appears on any port, and the other drives do not appear on any port... I would really want to try the other drives in another computer, and I would look for other factors that might be leading me to think that those drives are not working, like a faulty cable or jumper or setting or incompatibility, etc. one thing to check with HDDs can be: what do they sound like when they're powered up? maybe it's not communication but power that's not making it to the drives? do they spin up? do they sound off when they spin up? etc. --- |
| Topic | Nostalgic pc games that no one else has ever heard of |
| Sahuagin 01/24/21 12:08:35 AM #14 | Stellar 7 Thexder 2 Unnatural Selection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hin-DIVIeqE Alien Legacy NetStorm Exile: Escape from the Pit Actually quite a few that I will never know the name of a downloadable RPG around the era of Exile where I fought skeletons in a crypt under the starter town. I really liked that one, but who knows what it was there was an environmental sim-city like game that I had once, but I can never find any info on it some other random downloadable "rpg" game I played that was kind of like fallout, maybe, but really odd. it was surprisingly detailed... with what you could do with people you encountered... (basically, things you killed could be harvested for meat, and that didn't not include people). --- |
| Topic | Make a sentence with predictive text |
| Sahuagin 01/23/21 6:15:51 PM #3 | what is that I was in the other day and then the world wide range of the first quarter ended in a few weeks and then I was also the United States official who was not the first hand of my mind --- |
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